Crystallization and Precipitation Engineering
Prof. Alan Jones, University College London,
co-authored with Stelios Rigopoulos and Rudi Zauner
New computational techniques for the analysis and design
of systems for the manufacture of particulate crystals have become
available, and the more complex precipitation processes whereby
crystallization follows fast chemical reactions have also been analysed
more deeply. This progress has been aided by the growing power of the
population balance and kinetic models, CFD and mixing theory, respectively.
These aspects are selectively reviewed and areas requiring further
progress are identified.
Alan Jones
received his BSc and MSc degrees in Chemical Engineering from UMIST in
1968 and 1969 respectively and his PhD from UCL in 1972. After spending
eight years in Unilever and ICI as a process engineer, he returned to UCL
to join the academic staff of the Department of Chemical Engineering in
1980. He is now Professor of Chemical Engineering with publications mainly
in the field of industrial crystallization. His research group undertakes
fundamental studies of particle formation including nucleation and crystal
growth together with crystal agglomeration and disruption. It also devotes
considerable effort to the computational modelling of crystal size
distributions using population balances coupled with Computational Fluid
Dynamics (CFD) for crystallizer design, operation and control.